If you use Facebook you would know that there is a meme that is traveling around it to swap your photo for a photo of a “doppelganger” – someone famous that you look like. It's pretty cool. Suddenly you see pictures of movie stars next to your friend's name and you realize how much they [...]
Late last year I was speaking to industry representatives about the outcome for the iiNet court case. They all believed that it was a lay down misère, (in favour of themselves). After all, there was little old iiNet, a small (by world standards) ISP and there were thirty-four financially well heeled complainants. (Just on [...]
In 1994, I wanted to place an entry in the Phone Book to give me an advantage over my “soon to be competition”. I tried to register “Internet Australia Pty. Ltd.” as a company name. Quite rightly, ASIC refused my attempt at registering a “generic” name. I succeeded in my efforts by registering [...]
Most people in Australia don’t understand the iiNet trial. They think that either iiNet failed to follow it’s obligations under the copyright legislation or that iiNet were setup by DTECNET to take the fall that would create precedent in law that will require all ISP’s to dob in their customers, irregardless of actual proof. [...]
I just can’t believe that big business doesn’t yet understand the guaranteed formula for failure. Interdiction of an activity that is desired by the majority of the population will be met by alternative technological means. Each time Governments, Lobbyists and the partnered Judiciary (well they have no choice really, most judicial appointments are [...]
Yesterday I creamed News Limited for fake and political reporting, targeted at influencing the outcome of the iiNet trial currently underway. They used non-empirical data and ancient quotes from an misnamed organisation all designed to create FUD. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. That’s what the media these days considers is what is necessary for [...]
Have you ever noticed how the media is sometimes used as a weapon of mass destruction? Example: News Headline: Jews are Ruining the Economy! Result: Krystallnacht and 6 million Dead Jews. Rupert Murdoch wields News Limited as his private editorial rapier, slashing, trimming, opining and burning. Burning institutions, politicians, industrialists, bankers, entrepreneurs. [...]
Part II In Part 1, I said that we considered that Hollywood would ignore the man in the street as irrelevent on the other side of the table at a file-sharing peace conference. That was our conclusion. That an industry body that represented the man in the street would fail in lobbying a solution. Anyone [...]
Flashback – 1999 – Sydney, Federal Courtroom 23B I carried a box with 5,382 page phone bill to court with me every day. I was ATA Telstra for what I like to term, “inaccurate billing practices”. The Judge upon sitting down would look over his courtroom and espy me and the box in front [...]
It is an unstated fact of life that women provide the nurturing for the men that bring home the bacon. Therefore any potential male suitor needs to know exactly what the bacon is. Guys, a hint, it’s not a 1979 Holden Monaro with mag wheels and a 400 decibel stereo anymore. It’s [...]